Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most popular educational shows at the New York World's Fair is the Medicine & Public Health exhibit. In the shadowy Hall of Man stand countless glorifications of the human body-a swaying four-foot ear, a talking skeleton, a mechanical biceps, a huge plaster brain studded with push buttons. Through the Hall echoes the muffled beat of an invisible, mechanical heart...
...suturing and splinting (sewing up wounds and applying strips of wood in the bandage like stays in a corset), the wound is thoroughly trimmed of all germ-breeding dead tissues, soothed with vaseline gauze and sealed raw in a swiftly and easily wound-on cast of bandages soaked in plaster of Paris...
When Spanish wounded so treated began to hobble and be carried over into France as refugees, what was most noticeable was the terrific stench. This at first suggested to French surgeons that the plaster casts must be quickly ripped off and stinking human members amputated. The French soon learned, however, to let plastered Spanish wounded alone, observed that, while the odor for a time became almost unbearable, the end result was nearly always satisfactory. Last week the British Lancet said nothing about a heroic stench, said flatly that results of the Barcelona method have been so good in Flanders that...
Quoting Dr. William Heneage Ogilvie of London, especially enthusiastic about plaster, the Lancet summed up: "Once a wounded man has undergone efficient surgical treatment and has been put in plaster, he is safe-he may be blown out of an ambulance, derailed in a train, crashed in an aeroplane or torpedoed at sea, he may be left for weeks in a cellar . . . but so long as the plaster holds he will come to no harm." French surgeons in the War of 1870 pioneered the plaster closed method and in World War I it was used to some extent...
...surged through the stuffy halls of Manhattan's Grand Central Palace, chewing cigars and mopping steamy brows. The big building was cluttered with hundreds of little booths-papered with scientific charts, decorated with hearts & flowers, pickled fetuses, stuffed dogs, old bones, trays of purpled lungs and livers, plaster glands, transparent torsos, illuminated pictures of bathing beauties, bearded women, sissified men, monstrosities of all kinds. Shirt-sleeved barkers, with pointers in their hands and cigarets drooping from their lips, tried to entice passers-by to stop and view their wares...